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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Laptop sent',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="redemption">
	<h2>New beverage container redemption centre</h2>
	<p>
		The other day, my toxic shift leader asked me why I don&apos;t gather soda bottles as much as I used to.
		I still gather up the ones people leave out on the tables and the ones people outright hand me, but I don&apos;t pull them out of the garbage and wash them off to bring home like I used to.
		I explained that with the new beverage container redemption centre, the larger stores have stopped accepting containers for deposit (though they still <strong>*charge*</strong> the deposit) and the convenience stores are now excepting even fewer than before per day.
		Bringing my bottles to the redemption centre isn&apos;t feasible because of the distance.
		It&apos;d take way too many trips by bike, and it&apos;s too far to walk there with a large, bulky box for how little I&apos;d get back doing so.
		I don&apos;t have the time to take as many trips as would be needed to get the convenience stores to take them either, with how few I can bring per day.
		The toxic shift leader explained that the new redemption centre&apos;s actually paying twelve cents per container instead of the usual ten; as it the extra two cents per bottle would even cover my time in biking there.
		A couple days ago though, when someone was pulling their credit card out to buy some food, I say a weird card in their wallet that said it was for the redemption centre.
		I may not have time to frequently hit up the redemption centre, but I <strong>*do*</strong> have time to bay them a single visit to see what the card is about, at least if I work the stop into my usual Tuesday errand run.
	</p>
	<p>
		So that&apos;s what I did today.
		I loaded up my bag with twenty of the smallest bottles in my to-return box, and headed over.
		However, I found the bottle machines there pay the usual ten cents, not twelve.
		I then went and got one of the cards, which said it offered a 20% bonus for all returned containers.
		So that&apos;s were the extra two cents would come in.
		The card is completely bogus though.
		When I scanned the card and the redemption voucher, I was told it was only worth the same two dollars I&apos;d&apos;ve gotten without the card.
		I asked the representative there what was going on, and they explained a bit about the card.
		You get the bonus if and only if you let the redemption centre hold onto the money for you instead of withdrawing it and you use the bottle return card to buy stuff at very specific retailers.
		In other words, you in no way get twelve cents per container, the centre just has a program to try to get you to let them hold onto your money longer (which probably makes them interest) and to try to get you to shop at their partner retailers (which probably pay off the redemption centre in some way).
		It&apos;s a scam.
		Not a particularly dangerous one, but one that certainly isn&apos;t worth my time or effort.
		It&apos;s probably one a lot of people fall for though.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="laptop">
	<h2>Laptop shipped</h2>
	<p>
		Purism finally shipped my laptop.
		It took them long enough; it&apos;s been over a week.
		Now, the wait for it to make its way 
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Your response was concise and straight to the point!
			I would make one clarification though.
			You said that receivers of the $a[ARP] request check for a matching entry.
			It sounds like you&apos;re saying the receivers are checking for an entry so they can provide that entry to the requester.
			However, they only check their caches for an entry that matches the <strong>*requester&apos;s*</strong> information, so they can update their caches if need be.
			As far as responses go, they don&apos;t need to check for an entry at all.
			They just respond if their own known-to-them address is a match.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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